The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-07

his house one day and threw all the gam
bling apparatus into the street, kicked Lane
out after them and informed him that he
should never open his gambling house again.
Lane, being himself afraid of Flynn, sought
out Doran, who was then in New Orleans,
and took him into partnership, with the
understanding that Doran should go TO Hot
Springs ndreopen business. This Doran at
once did, whereupon Flynn notified him that
he must close up or fight it out with him the
first time they met. Doran accepted the
latter alternative, and upon meeting Flynn
upon the street at once opened fire on him,
which Flynn promptly returned Both OF
them were men of steady nerve and unerr-
ing shots but after firing some fifteen times
altogether, Flynn took refuge in barber
shop, and TO the surprise of everybody
neither one of them seemed to have been hit.
But it afterwards appeared that Flynn had
to fire with his left hand, owing to recent
injury to his right His aim was therefore
not 50 certain rs usual. Doran insisted that
he mad hit Flynn with more than one OF his
shots; that he had seen balls strike
his clothes and he was bewildered that Flynn
did not fall Later il was learned that Do
rams aim was true, and that three OF his
shots did strike Flynn, but he was encase1
in steel armor, and the balls did not pene-
trnte though he suffered greatly for num-
ran and Flynn had a number of followers,
and Omen war was ut once declared between
the factions. Flynn was confined to his
room for some days, after his encounter
with Doran. But as soon as he recovered
he gathered around him some ten or twelve
followers, among them two of his brothers,
and made ready for active hostiiitics. Do
ran called together his friends and held
them in readiness for the conflict which he
knew was inevitable
a Lively STREET FIGHT.
Each party kept under cover for some
DAYS, seeking by stealth, or strategy, some
advantage Finally Dorau was Informed
that Flynn and his party were about to
leave one of their places of resort, in car
riages. to reach the home of Flynn in the
southern part of the town. So when the
four carriages containing Flynn and his
friends had reached the centre of the town,
Doran and his followers sailed out from an
adjoining house and opened fire on them
with Winchester rifles. The carriages
were riddled with bullets, the driver of one
was killed and another wounded. The
moment the firing began, Flynn, followed by
his two brothers and the remainder of his
escort, sprang from the carriages and began
to return the fire. The flsilade lasted some
five or ten minutes. the result was that
three or four of Flvnn's followers, including
the carriage driver and one of his brothers,
were killed and Flynn himself was wounded.
This latter created great indignation among
the people of the town of Hot Springs, and
they finally organized i'll sufficient force to
drive all the parties from the place. Flynn
went to Chicago, where he still resides, and
Doran went to Fort Smith and was after
wards employed by the United States Mar
shall in that district to assist in arrest
ing number of desperate characters in the
Indian Territory. This duty. it is said, he
performed with his usual vigor and nerve,
killing two or three of the desperadoes and
arresting the remainder, and turning them
over to the civil authorities of Fort Smith
Then came his last difficulty with the
gambler Fagg, in which. it appears, the
after accomplished by stealth and
cowardice what SO many brave men had
failed in before That is the wounding,
perhaps mortally. of Doran. 1t seems that
the parties had a quarrel in Fagg's
gambling house, and the latter, per-
haps not liking the undertaking of
attacking Doran while he was looking at
him, waited until he had left the house and
was standing on the street. Fagg APP
preached from behind and fired ut his head.
But Doran, turning at the moment, the shot
took effect in his face, and he at once fell.
Even then his native courage did not fail
him in this emergency. He drew his pistol
and continued firing at Fagg until the latter
had fed out of range.
Both Doran and Frank Flynn. his most
noted antagonist, possess many commend
able traits of character. Both are said to
be honest and upright outside their calling,
sincere in their friendship, of generous
nature, and neither was ever accused of
fear